My Journey to Doit.im

wjlynch

09/06/2013 13:14

Hey everybody,

Thought I would kick things off with a little rundown for how I ended up using Doit.im with my daily driver being Android (and the web interface when at work/home). Would be curious how you all got here.

I have played around with just about every GTD service out there. I usually know right off the bat whether the system will work for me or not. Many (in my estimation) are overly complicated and I have spent way too much time in the past "getting things set up" or constantly tweaking things. I probably spent the most amount of time over the years with Toodledo and then most recently (over the last year) with Nirvana. Toodledo is a fantastic swiss army knife of organization options, but requires major tweaking to make it work with GTD. I also found that the user experience with Android apps to be lacking. Nirvana on the other hand is very simple and pure to GTD, but the lack of development, communication and no Android app ultimately drove me away.

I had played around with Doit.im in the past but it just did not stick for some reason. I came back to it this past month, fully committed to using it and have been pretty happy ever since. I love the Android app and the widget/integration with the OS. Sure there are a few things that I would like to see fixed or developed, but I am confident that the developer is active, communicates and is heading in the right direction.

My hope is that these forums can grow to be as active as my experience in the Toodledo and Nirvana forums.

Bill

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• Paulussie  (积分：15)09/06/2013 14:32
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  Hi Bill,
  
  I also got here via Nirvana, which I like(d) but hardly ever really used for the lack of Android support, and, if I am honest, my in-grown unwillingness to succumb to a GTD like system. About once every year I get into a 'from now on I am going to things completely different' mode and go look for the solution to my chaotic behavior. And this is that time again. As said, I liked Nirvana, but the (perceived?) state of things there made me wonder if they were going to be around for much longer, so, as my registration with them ends this week I decided to look elsewhere. Doit.im looked nice, looked like it had some support, syncs with Google calendar and was affordable. So I am going to try this for a year and see if it is the tool to help me get organized. Now let's find a howto. And a way to order tasks in the Next list...
  
  Regards,
  
  Paul
  
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• wjlynch  (积分：30)09/06/2013 15:15
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  Glad to see there are others like me out there in terms of annual re-evaluation of a GTD system! Amazing how many different systems there are out there yet not a single one completely has nailed it for me. Doit.im has been the best experience for me thus far since I moved from iphone to Android. I am encouraged by the activity they seem to have going on as far as development.
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• Anjum  (积分：100)09/09/2013 16:03
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  Hi guys,
  
  I was a Doit.im user for about a year before moving to Todoist because I preferred their drag and drop functionality. My subscription over there has ended and I'm undecided whether to renew. I still have a month left of a pro subscription on Doit.im so I thought I'd give it another go because I always appreciated their support for the Android software. I think it's due a major update to take advantage of the power of some of the newer phones, but I still enjoy the features of the web package and phone app as a whole.
  
  Nirvana was nice but they don't have the ability to keep up to date with constant upgrades in phone software IMO so I bailed out of there before they went subscription. Best choice I ever made, very over-priced for an incomplete solution.
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• Festus  (积分：80)09/26/2013 20:58
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  I'd never learned how to be properly organised, how to make lasting plans. Often I was unrealistic about what I could achieve and lacked the discipline to stick to those plans. I came across Toodledo but hadn't read David Allen's book. Given the nature of that program I found it took me a lifetime filling out all the available fields! It didn't last. Then I read the book, went back to the program. My fundamental failing this time was too many things were starred -due to sheer number of things I'd fallen behind on, though they were all important - but it felt like I was never going to get through it all. It became a barrier and I slipped back to trying to keep bits in my brain. The more you fall/fail the tougher it gets summoning the energy, monetary/time investment in finding something new.
  The final nail was seeing my friend's iphone where he was running Things®. I couldn't believe how pretty, uncluttered and specific it looked. GTD was it's raison d'etre. I desperately searched for a third party app that would render toodledo pretty on the eye (for my laptop), something to make it a pleasure to use (on my android). I settled on Ultimate To Do, but also bought DGT, Due Today as well as other but thanks to the pandora's box that was my friend's phone nothing really stuck. Matters got worse when I saw his laptop also running Things®.
  "So fresh, so seamless...." [[went the voice in my head in a Patrick Bateman voice]]
  
  It was time to look else where and I settled on doit.im. I have to say I really, really like it thus far. There are
  things that I think would/could improve it but compared to where I was, this has been fantastic. Pretty on the eye and I like the familiarity of using the same system on both my phone and desktop.
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• wjlynch  (积分：30)10/17/2013 13:26
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  Although I continue to test and explore other GTD options on Android (just a habit I guess), I still have not found anything that comes close to the performance and UI of doit.im. Trello while not a traditional GTD program, offers up some interesting options I would like to see in doit.im like attachments and being able to manually sort checklists within a task. Hoping doit.im continues to develop the Android app - I think the last update was in July.
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• aspirin85  (积分：130)12/18/2013 16:47
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  to be honest, i loved Things from cultured code. However since switching to android, i have not been able to find anything close to things or true to the GTD methodology until i found doit.im
  it is indeed true to GTD but yet not overbearing like omnifocus.
  
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